...Jack Abramoff ever "held dear" was Jack Abramoff, and the bank account of same. Which makes him no different than most of his pals in the GOP.

... who remembers this sentence:

"You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter."

As I recall, no one took the trouble to correct Huck's grammar; leastways if they did, he paid them no mind.

While SI's Dr. Z did correctly pick the Panthers to win the NFC, he also ranked the Bears dead last in the league, below even the unholy trinity of Arizona, Detroit, and New Orleans. And he's actually supposed to know what he's talking about.

Did I really write that? It's too early in the morning. Well at least the Panthers actually made the championship game, unlike the Eagles.

... the last time you wrote about curling (2002), when you said, "Compared to curling, bowling is like a flamethrower fight between naked movie stars on motorcycles."

At least you're only ripping off yourself.

First ever Woody Allen reference in a Winter Olympics column! Way to go, King!

... anyone who finds shaving their legs to be "a pain in the ass" probably has a poor sense of direction.

... is only as "wrong" as Think Small or Think Pink, except the latter two probably didn't have so many grammar savants complaining about them.

And Poco, hang up and freakin' drive!

... soon enough we'll be hearing that those attorneys fired themselves.

The August 6 2001 PDB, which stated that Bin Laden was determined to strike within the US = not actionable.

Bozo Chertoff's "gut feelings" = big news, to be trotted out as vindication if ANYTHING terror-related happens in the next Friedman Unit (6 months)?

OK I give up, they're obviously just making stuff up now. Someone on K Street must be laughing himself sick.

If they posted the story Saturday, or Sunday, or next month, do you doubt that the letters page would still be full of self-righteous "how DARE you?" screeds? And I don't even know what to say about people who write "I didn't read the article, but you should be ashamed for posting it, whatever it was."

PS: Cain kills Abel.

For better or worse, modern baseball is as Bud and his cronies have made it, and for him not to be present at its culmination because he doesn't like the result is hugely hypocritical.

(Personally, I was 7 years old in 1974, stayed up late to watch the #715 game on April 8, and consider Mr. Aaron a personal hero. Steroids or no steroids, good luck getting anyone to say the same about Bonds in 30 years.)

One by one the public figures in the administration get thrown under the Cheney/Rove bus when they're no longer useful. It should be interesting to see how they treat Bush himself as the next election nears.

someone asked Cecil Adams (thestraightdope.com) whether we might have done better in Vietnam by taking the money spent on subduing the country, dividing it by the population, and sending them all checks. Imagine the equivalent numbers for Iraq. (Hell, imagine the equivalent numbers HERE.)

Dangit, my head just exploded trying to picture that. Thanks a lot...

Went on for years? The one where we supported Hussein, the enemy of our enemy? Well, it's finally over. Iran won. Thanks to us.

Dems:

Nation Building, For THIS Nation

Reps:

GOP in '08! No, Seriously!

... don't get to use the word "cowardly," okay?

When the time comes for Fredo to write his memoirs, will he remember anything at all?

Unreal Men

(In)Action Figures

and so on.

...at every step of this process, indeed of this Presidency, is the realization that if the Bush administration actually had a better, more compelling case for what they are doing, they would have used it. It's scary to realize that what they've been telling us is the best justification they can come up with.

Moveon is getting money from me now, and Feinstein will not, and I'm a life-long Democrat. (If she wants my vote from now on, she'll have to earn it.)

... just rotate the tours? Seemed like a good enough idea to them when those poor souls were alive.

(Or better yet, pile the coffins up on the White House lawn next time Our Hero is on vacation.)

... as to hide my name. I'm all for respecting and supporting the troops, but I wish more of our elected officials chose to do it while they were still alive.

The ONLY thing the RightWingMachine seems to be complaining about is the "Petraeus - Betray Us" in big type at the top of the ad. Surely, if they took issue with the actual content, they would respond with their own evidence? Surely, if they even read the rest of the ad, they would have something to say about it? Surely,... oh, who am I kidding?

Winner Take Oll?

Let's say 20 or 25 loaded handguns on every domestic flight! What could possibly go wrong?

Just think about it: Blackwater operates free of military oversight, while conveniently pursuing the Administration's goals ("Who will rid me of this meddlesome Islamofascist?"), does not require the post-war medical care granted to actual soldiers, and all they cost is taxpayer money, which as an added bonus gets funneled directly to the CEOs of the War Business. What's not to like?

Yeah! I think GREEN would be a good ribbon color, don't you?

... the new Windows 2012XPWTFBBQ that *requires* the 4Tb drive.

Now I'm gonna be laughing all day. "Owl Qaeda" -- sounds like the villain on a new twisted Muppet Show.

It would have to be a fetus -- someone the 24% actually cares about.